Jar-top wrench.



' ,ZPA'TENTED FEB. 17, 1903*.

0. TEEGARDEN. JABTOP WRENCH; APPLIUATIGN :ILED- APR. 4, 1902' 110 MODEL.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OTTO TEEGARDEN, OF GOSHEN, INDIANA.

, JAR-TOP WRENCH.

SEEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 720,753, dated February 17, 1903.

Application filed April t, 1902. Serial lilo. 101,382. (No model.) I

To rt/Z whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, OTTO TEEGARDEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Goshen, in the county of Elkhart and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Jar-Top Wrenches, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to wrenches for loosening or tightening the lids of jars, be and has for its object to provide a device of the class described that will be reasonable in cost of manufacture, easy to manipulate, and that will so distribute the strain on the lid as to reduce to a minimum the danger of breaking the lid or jar.

Additional advantages of my invention will more fully appear hereinafter, and by reference to the accompanying drawings, in

which-- Figure l is a plan view of my invention in a position to be applied to the jar-top; Fig. 2, a view with the wrench applied to thejartop; Fig. 3, aside view of the invention, and Fig. 4 a cross-section of the bearing-shoe.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views, A represents the handle of my invention having the relatively thin extended end B.

O is a loop made of metal, preferably circ ular in cross-section, pivoted to said end portion B by a pin or rivet D, one end of said loop O being bent down, as at E, the other end bent up, as at F, so as to permit pivoting the ends on opposite sides of the end portion B of the handle A, as shown.

G represents a bearing-shoe made, preferably, of' sheet metal bent and pressed into the shape shown in the drawings, having a segmental bearing-surface H and its two free ends I' and I spread apart to straddle the end of the portion B and be pivoted thereon by means of a pin or rivet J.

From this construction it will be readily understood that when the loop 0 and bearing-shoe G are turned to one side, as shown in Fig. 1, the distance between the segmental bearing-surface H and the outer curve of the 00p 0 is the greatest, thus permitting the rench to be applied to the top of the jar.

The handle A is then turned away from the jar until the loop 0 and shoe G press tightly the top, when it will begin to move in the direction desired, it being apparent that when the loop C and shoe Gr project straight out from the handle A the distance between the outer curve of the loop and the segmental surface H is the least. It will be understood that the wrench by being correctly applied to the jar-top can be used either to tighten or loosen the top.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is.

"1. A jar-top wrench comprising a handle, a metal loop having both ends pivoted at a common point intermediate the ends of said handle, and means on the inner end of the handle to clutch the jar-top, substantially as shown and described.

' 2. A jar-top wrench comprising a handle having a reduced and flattened portion, a metal loop having both ends pivoted ata common point on opposite sides of said reduced portion intermediate the ends thereof, and means on the inner end of the handle to clutch the jar-top, substantially as shown and described;

3. In a jar-topwrench, a handle, a bearingshoe pivoted at one end of said handle, and a loop having both ends pivoted at one point intermediate the ends of said handle, substantially as shown and described.

4. In a jar-top wrench, a handle having areduced end portion, a bearing-shoe pivoted at the outer end of said reduced portion, and a loop having both ends pivoted at one point intermediate the ends of said-hand1e, substantially as shown and described. v

5. In a jar-top wrench, a handle having a reduced end portioma bearing-shoe made from sheet metal pressed into a segmental bearingsurface and having two ends that straddle said reduced portion and pivoted thereon, and a loop having its ends bent in opposite directions and pivoted at a common point on opposite sides of said reduced portion intermediate the ends thereof, substantially as shown and described.

6. A jar-wrench comprising ahandle having a reduced and flattened end portion, a

bearing-shoe made from sheet metal pressed into a segmental bearing-surface and having two ends that straddle said reduced and flattened portion and pivoted thereon, and a loop made of a strip of metal circular in oross-section having its ends bent in opposite directions and pivoted at a common point on 0pposite sides of said reduced and flattened end portion intermediate the ends thereof, substantially as shown and described. is

In testimony whereofI hereto affix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

OTTO TEEGARDEN.

Witnesses:

MYRTLE CHAMPION, EDGAR D. CURRIER. 

